of the west wing. it became a subject of continual reporting, especially bythe wall street journal,on its editorial page. particularly on people like deputy white house counsel vince foster. he was kind of being a scapegoat on the travel-office firings. like, who is vince foster? foster had a very good reputation before he went to washington. all of a sudden, he s in the limelight. one of the things that bothered foster is that the journalwas raising questions about what was going on there. this is really spooky. foster clearly is depressed. white house spokeswoman dee dee myers has confirmed that the president telephoned foster, inviting him to the white house to watch a movie on the evening of the 19th. foster declined to come. the movie, in the line of fire, stars clint eastwood as a secret service agent. and the question throughout the movie is, are you willing to step into the line of fire to protect your president?
no words with a crying emoji. sad stuff. thanks. i m heather childers in for shepard smith. your world is next. have a great new year! bye-bye. the political story of the decade. a remarkable team to be a political journalist in washington d.c. we like our presidents to resonate with the majesty of the office. but they re human beings and fallible. we re looking at things that could be survived. lying will get you in trouble. massively disappointed and angry. you put risk with something like that. there s risk such as the constitution and risk as an impeachable offense. the truth will come out. the american public never heard about it. bill clinton and the media hand the country would never be the same.
mr. trump inviting congressional leaders to the white house tomorrow. this comes as house democrats plan to vote on funding bills on thursday which do not include the money president trump wants for a border wall. and the family of a retired u.s. marine arrested in russia says that he was in moscow for a wedding. a russian federal security service says that 48-year-old paul wheland was caught in a espionage operation. if convicted, he can face 20 years in prison. i m heather childers. now back to scandalous. congratulations. [ cheers and applause ] bill clinton s presidency, i think, was regarded as pretty normal. we were shifting from republican to democrat, which this country tends to do. he brought with him a strong democratic majority in both houses of congress. he also brought with him a number of friends from arkansas. there s a thing that happens with presidents who are not from washington. and that is, they ve got a team
hillary clinton. bill clinton is an arkansas boy from hot springs. and he runs for attorney general of arkansas, is elected. jim mcdougal was a longtime democratic party operative. he had been involved in politics. he had been a college professor. smooth-talking, raconteur, good old southern boys. you know, smart as a whip. he considered himself somewhat of a entrepreneur. he would buy land and develop them and then sell it. i met him at ouachita baptist university. and i had locked myself out. and i went over to his office and i said, does your key fit this? and he kicked the door down. and i should have known then. i should have said, who does that? jim did. that was the kind of man he was a southern gentleman with a little edge. jim was just bigger than life. yeah, we got married, i think, a few days after i graduated from
in 1978, chris wade offered jim a piece of undeveloped land in marion county price tag of $203,000. it was just some land on the bluff overlooking the white river. and he said, let s just drive up and take a look at it. jim and susan fell in love with it. we get there, and there s water running through it. and the trees were really beautiful. it was quiet and serene. it was almost like looking at a cartoon of arkansas. jim was sold, but he needed some partners. actually, i got this piece of land up in the white river i m gonna buy. you want to go in with me? i ll take care of setting the financing up. jim wanted to offer bill that opportunity to make maybe a few hundred dollars on it. it would be a little bit of a prestige that bill clinton owned a tract in whitewater. the two couples borrowed money from a local bank and put up a 10% down payment. that same year, 32-year-old bill clinton became the youngest governor in the country. the newly formed whitewater deve